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1. Click the Email Accounts icon under Mail. 2. Enter the new email address for this POP account. Note: If you have more than one domain in your account (ie. with domain parking or addon domains), be sure to choose the correct domain for which you want to create your POP email account). 3. Then ...

This feature allows a copy of any email sent to one address to be forwarded to another address. This lets you use one account to check mail sent to several email addresses. You can also discard email or send (pipe) mail to a program. Please note that any email account with BoxTrapper enabled s ...

You can actually login to your webmail account without first logging in to cPanel. To do that, simply type the following into your browser: http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail If you want to access your email account from within cPanel, you will need to: 1. Click the Webmail icon under Mail. 2. C ...

MIME types relay information to the browser about how to handle file extensions. Adding MIME types is useful for enabling visitors’ browsers to handle new technologies as they come out. cPanel lets you add new MIME types to your web server by defining a name, directory, and corresponding f ...

This area of cPanel’s interface contains tools for retrieving network information. For instance, you can look up an IP address or trace the route from your computer to the computer on which your website is hosted (your web server). Domain Lookup cPanel’s Network Tools will execute ...

To update your contact information in cPanel, you can use the Update Contact Information feature. This feature allows you to change your primary contact email addresses. These email addresses will function as the main contact points for notifying you of new information regarding your website. I ...

An MX record is used by a mail server to route incoming email. Changing your MX record is usually done to redirect email to a remote server. It can also be used as a temporary backup in case the local mail server goes down. 1. Click the MX Entry icon under Mail. 2. Choose the domain for which t ...

The Raw Access Log manager is where you tell the system how to manage the Raw Log files that are generated daily for your account. 1. Click the Raw Access Logs icon under Logs. 2. For this tutorial, let’s tell the system to archive logs every month. Click the checkbox. 3. Click the Save ...

This function displays general information about who is logged into your FTP server. This information includes the account name, IP address, login time, current status, and process ID of the current user. To disconnect users from an FTP session 1. Click on the FTP Session Control icon under File ...

1. Click the FTP Accounts icon under Files. 2. Enter a login name and password. 3. If you leave /user2 in the directory box, then the user of this FTP account will only have access to the /user2 directory and all folders under it. To give the user access to the entire website, delete everything ...

1. Click the Disk Space Usage icon under Files. 2. This page shows you where disk space usage is distributed within your account’s home directory. It can be useful when you need ot know what is causing you to reach a disk space quota. 3. The Disk Usage Summary section shows the first leve ...

Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page. This way you can make a page with a long URL accessible by a page which has a shorter and easier to remember URL. 1. Click the Redirects icon under the Domains section. 2. Choose whet ...

Domain Parking is useful when you have additional domain names that you want people to be able to use to get to your website. For example, let’s say your domain name is yourdomain.com, but you also own the domain yourdomain.net. If you park on of the domains on the other, then both will re ...

Subdomains are URLs for different sections of your website. They use your main domain name and a prefix. For example, if your domain is yourdomain.com, a subdomain might be shop.yourdomain.com. 1. Click the Subdomains icon under the Domains section. 2. Enter the prefix of your new subdomain her ...

You can use the Change Language feature to change the default display language of your cPanel interface. To change the default language: 1. Click on the Change Language icon under the Preferences section. 2. Select a language in the pull-down menu. 3. Click Change.

A parked domain is an additional domain that points to the main directory of your account. You can park an unlimited number of domains at no cost. A parked domain will resolve to your primary domain name. Say, your primary is yourdomain.com and you park park123.com. If you type park123.com in y ...